Pune Cantonment board (PCB) is starting the process of computerising its land record for easier access. According to officials PCB took the decision to computerise the land records in its Finance Committee meeting held last month. In the meeting officials decided to computerise both the land records on the general land register (GLR) and the lease record as well. A voluminous record of some 10,000 pages of GLR record and lease records of 3,072 pages is being computerised. Member of the Finance Committee,Manzoor Shiekh,said,the entire land record will be computerised. The data not only about the land which has been given to the people on lease,but also that of the buildings which have come up on leased land will be computerised. This will not only facilitate the work of the people but also make the work of the officials to access the records easy and will reduce the requirement of manpower for carrying out official works. The computerisation work will make the renewal of the licences of the people easier. In the meeting cantonment board approved the lowest bid of Rs 55.7 thousand by M/S eJAS for carrying out the computerisation of land record. The Finance committee approved by the bid by eJAS as its total cost on computerisation was coming out to be less than that which was quoted by other bidders. While some of the bidders had quoted lesser rate for computerisation of the GLR record their quotes of the lease record was on higher side giving the M/S eJAS an edge. In the Finance Committee meeting which was held on 21 August,the PCB besides approving the scanning and digitalisation of the land record also decided to provide the money for setting up a computerised record room which will store the record of all the cantonments of Southern command. The Finance committee meeting decided to incur an expenditure of Rs 4 lakh towards expenditure on the computerisation services in the cantonment boards. PCB had received a letter from Directorate of Defence Estates,Pune,bearing number 8078/COMPUTER/GEN/X/DE on 4 August for making the expenses and it has now decided to carry out the expenses under the budget head A-4. A record room will be set up in which the record of all the 19 cantonments will be safely stored, said Manzoor Shiekh.
